talked about this subject recently<\/a> and all the evidence I’ve seen supports the survey, although I’d venture the percentage of sites claiming to apply CPUs is higher in the survey! However, as I said in that series, my argument was never about what was right or wrong, but the reality I’ve experienced. Personally, I feel that sites should apply security updates and invest whatever is required (predominantly in man-power and a commitment to maintenance outages) to do the job. That’s why I’m very pleased that my current site is grasping the CPU bull by the horns and, having encouraged the business to upgrade to 9.2.0.8, is pretty close to having the Oct 2007 CPU fully implemented. <\/p>\nNext up will be the Jan 2008 CPU. It’s a never-ending story, after all, but I’m sure we’ll get better.<\/p>\n
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I’m pleased to see a few posts debating the (non)-application of quarterly Critical Patch Updates. Here are a few examples … Is Poor Security Hygiene Rampant?Do DBAs care about Oracle\u2019s latest Critical Patch Update?Survey finds that 66% of Oracle users never install critical patches All of which seem to have been kicked off by Pete… Continue reading CPUs again …<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":971,"url":"http:\/\/orcldoug.com\/blog\/2005\/06\/22\/dba_registry-again\/","url_meta":{"origin":1377,"position":0},"title":"dba_registry (again)","date":"June 22, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"(Switch humour on ...)Many thanks to Pete Finnegan for making sure that my embarassing mistakes kick around on recent entries at Orablogs! 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